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The Moon on Monday, October 21, 1963: Waxing Crescent, 14% lit

Waxing · 13.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 10°

Moon age

4.0days

Moon phase on October 21, 1963Waxing Crescent

Monday 21 October 1963405,507 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, October 21, 1963, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 13.6% of its visible face lit, 4.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

13.6%Illumination at noon UTC
4.0 dMoon age
405,507 km251,970 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (11°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 21, 1963 is on Friday, November 1, 1963 at 13:55 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 17, 1963 at 12:43 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, October 17, 196312:43
First Quarter (after)Friday, October 25, 196317:20

The Moon around October 21

More about this date

Monday, October 21, 1963 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 17, 1963 to the new moon of November 16, 1963, a cycle of 29.76 days.